I once watched a movie titled
Mandela & De Clark. It was a movie about how Mandela was sent to jail for 27
years and how De Clark became the new South African president to make his
freedom a reality. I observed in the movie that all the powerful White South
Africans were worried about Mandela despite the fact that he was old and was in
chains. I also realized that he was a prince and was determined from a young age
to improve the conditions of his people. Most importantly, I noticed that the
very powers that was meant to oppress him was actually serving and preserving
him.

At a young age, just before
he went to prison, he told the Judge that he was prepared to fight and die for
the fight against injustice regardless of race. In prison, he refused to change
his stance to the extent that one of the guards who was supposed to read all his
letters before mailing them, began to teach him how to hide messages in letters that
prison officers could not decode. When the Black South Africans started fighting
for his release and demanding change, the White South Africans began to realize
that the time to bow to Black rule was at hand, but they needed someone who
would assist towards a peaceful transition. They wanted someone who will not use
Black rule to massacre the White South Africans in retaliation for years of White
oppression. This is how and where Mandela became relevant. The problem the White
South African government now had was how to free Mandela without him knowing
that they needed him.

For this to happen, President
Botha had to be replaced by De Clark because Botha had promised a thousand times
that he was the bright White star of South African oppression and that no Black
was relevant. He could no longer maintain that stance because the walls were
falling all around him, and since a transition to Black rule was becoming
inevitable, a new kid on the block was needed to take a new course of action. Soon, they
began to pamper Mandela. White South Africans will give him rides around the
city, clothes to wear, tie his shoes, give him a house where he could be with
his wife, host him in their homes, and meet with South African Presidents (Botha
& Clark) while he was officially still a prisoner. In the process of the
pampering, he was able to make demands that were met while he was still in
prison. He made De Clark free some political prisoners, reopened Black
organizations that were banned for years, and passed laws that allowed exiled
Black leaders to return home. What amazed me the most, was that when De Clark
wanted to release him a few days earlier; Mandela requested that he stays a few
more days until he was ready to be released. In other words, he was now more
powerful as a prisoner of 27 years that a renewed freed man. What he could
accomplish while in chains was more than he might accomplish if he ran to
quickly for
freedom.

The purpose of sharing my
opinion on Mandela with you is not for us to clap for him, but to ask ourselves
how a man that was imprisoned to die and the man that was freed by the same
oppressor who put him in prison, could change the destiny of his people and
nation for the better. In other words, he was released to do the very thing they
had imprisoned him for. So it was White South African power that wasted
27 years of their lives and not Mandela. God is truly awesome!!! What he would have done for free, De Clark now begged him to
do for the sake of White South Africans 27 years later. De Clark begged
Mandela to please help them
preserve what they (whites) had left. Is this not a perfect case of praying for
our enemies to live long so that they can see what we become? Why was Mandela, a
Black African career prisoner, successful against not just White South Africa,
but also the White world powers?

Mandela defined himself at an
early age as a man that was going to serve his nation by fighting against the
injustice of his people and nation regardless of race and ethnicity. He did not
say he was going to serve God, Pastor, Imam, temple, political power, or Swiss
Bank, because a man who fights for equality and fairness of a nation or people
serves God. He even stood against the oppression of the White oppressor before
and after his imprisonment. He was an African prince that was not corrupted by
Europeanized or colonized form of power because of his long years of segregation
in prison. He could not be bought, manipulated, deceived, or shaken by fears of
death, promise of fame and wealth, or titles without responsibility. He was a
man focused on the pledge towards his purpose of fairness and equality. When a
man stands for something good; even his opponents will eventually come around to
celebrate him. The time wasted, cost paid, or lack of immediate rewards is never
an issue for a man who has understanding, who is prudent, and who is well rooted
in his quest to serve humanity. This is where our politicians and the Nigerian/African
masses fail. Despite the fact that the odds where against him, it was the freed
powerful men who arrested him that needed him; he did not even want to be free. He
realized that his punishment and imprisonment was actually his strength to
acquire his destiny. He had enough wisdom do know when the wind of change was
blowing in his favor and the right time to make his demands, but was patient for
27 years. God is slow but never late. When we serve others for the sake of our
nation, the rewards is usually slow and initially small, if any at all. It is
with persistence of goodness that eventually leads to mass rewards and
jubilations.

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Every Nigerian/African needs to define their life
based on a purpose to live and serve their fellowman and nation. It should not
be based on money, power, titles, degree, or linage. Based on Mandela, we should be
the ones that elect our leaders and not external forces or whomever the retired
military wants. The ability of the masses to genuinely choose their leaders to
serve and represent them is a service to humanity and the people. It is not what
the government gives the masses, but instead, it is what the masses make
happen. The entire African continent is imprisoned for its resources, and not
because we are Blacks. How does Europe get these resources cheaply and get them
to European manufacturing centers to produce products that will be sold back to
Africa expensively? This is the purpose of slavery, colonization, and why
Africans must have bad leaders. It does not matter where you live; a Black
person is perceived as cheap laborer and a consumer. As long as we are given
incompetent leaders that make bad economic and political decision, we are
destined not to produce but consumer others people's products. Since we are not
producing, the only way to survive becomes to sell our resources at cheap prices
like it is programmed to be. Until Africans learn to serve their nation from
all works of life no matter the cost and lack of immediate reward, we will never
free ourselves from having planted bad leaders and we will remain the global
economic labor force.